I don't have too much to take it to task for - I don't think it earned the "dream" type twist they employed and it's amazing to me that they felt the need to include the Wayne murders. I also can't be the only one that saw all the technical homages to shots from The Dark Knight and found that a little...odd for a movie that's ostensibly not connected to that timeline at all.


I also agree with people that the movie didn't always feel as dreadful or defeated as it should've; part of me wonders if there's anything they could've done about that other than using old film and scaling the resolution down to the standards of the '70s. But then we have You Were Never Really Here is a counterpoint to that, I guess.


I don't know, I think the most common sentiment I'm seeing about this movie is the correct one: Phillips is a smart director and he lucked out in getting Phoenix for this, who's asked to do a lot of digging to elevate the material from a series of references to something more original. I don't think it's going to be a movie that keeps people thinking about it the way King of Comedy has the power to do, because while that movie also has a lot of minor nagging flaws it ultimately didn't have to carry the weight of a comic book IP and felt more real / relatable as a result.


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